Who's Who (was Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252)

[Paul Mackin]

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From: <barbara100 at jps.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252


> It's so good to have you back!  Even if just for a day...
>
> I've just come  from seeing Harry Potter. One of the wizards said--the
evil
> wizard I think--said, "There is no Good or Evil, only Power."  It reminds
me
> a little of what Pynchon said about power.
>
>
> Words for Salman Rushdie
>
> The New York Times Book Review
> 12 March 1989, p. 29
> Our thanks to you and to Marianne Wiggins for recalling those of us who
> write to our duty as heretics, for reminding us again that power is as
much
> our sworn enemy as unreason, for making us all look braver, wiser, more
> useful than we often think we are. We pray for your continuing good
health,
> safety and lightness of spirit.
>
> -- By Thomas Pynchon
>
> Copied from the Great Quail's
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_rushdie.html
>
> Love your site!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #2252
>
>
> > Thanks, Paul, for providing such a good example of how, with advancing
> age,
> > people can grow so certain that their convictions -- yours, apparently,
> > that this war is inevitable and right and that its critics are
inevitably
> > wrong -- are beyond question.  Thankfully, I have the opportunity to
spend
> > a lot of my time with several seniors who remain open to new ideas and
who
> > welcome discussion and debate of the issues of the day, including this
> war.
> > Some of them disagree with anti-war views, but, unlike you, they don't
> > dismiss out of hand the arguments and information presented by the war's
> > critics, nor do they work so hard to discredit the war's critics through
> ad
> > hominem attack without engaging any of the points offered for
discussion,
> > as you have consistently done here.  Instead, they take the time to read
> > and think about the spectrum of views regarding the war, before
accepting
> > or rejecting them.
> >
> > And, thank goodness for online journalism, which is in fact one of the
> only
> > links to information and opinions about the way that have in fact been
> > systematically excluded from the corporate media in the U.S.  Ridicule
the
> > messenger if you will, but you can't prevent the message from getting
> > through.
>